HiGHFLYiN9 Posted November 25, 2007 Report Posted November 25, 2007 As the title states, I need to convert a collection of ALAC files to lossy WMAs and keep the original files (got a cheap brown Zune). dBPowerAmp is the only software I'm aware of that will handle this conversion, should I try my luck with it or does someone here have another recommendation? Quote
Nanoha Posted November 25, 2007 Report Posted November 25, 2007 Foobar2K can do it. You'll need to find a plugin for encoding WMAs. WMA is closed, so it might be difficult to find it. I know there was one for Foobar 0.8. Quote
Nanoha Posted November 25, 2007 Report Posted November 25, 2007 I went to do some more searches, and it seems there isn't one for 0.9. This sucks; all right, time to search for other options. Quote
HiGHFLYiN9 Posted November 25, 2007 Author Report Posted November 25, 2007 Doh.. ah well. I think MS licenses WMA out to other companies, but Apple doesn't, which makes this hard. Quote
slwiser Posted November 25, 2007 Report Posted November 25, 2007 The full version of dBPowerAmp that I use allows me great flexibility and speed at converting files. It uses both my cores and shows a speed of range between 80x and 100x during coverting FLAC files into Apple Lossless. I have also used its batch converter on a whole directory system of about 3k files. I do not use WMA so I can't say anything about how it works with those files. Ripping uses the accurate rip database. Quote
mjb Posted November 25, 2007 Report Posted November 25, 2007 i've not used dbpoweramp myself, but there seem to be a lot of folks over at hydrogen audio who have switched from eac to dbpa now that it has accuraterip... i think you'll find info on all the best options for doing what you're trying to do over at ha. mjb Quote
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